How do we read today, and how will we read in the future? How can professions that work to promote reading come together? These are questions being discussed and explored in a new interdisciplinary centre at the University of Borås.

At the same time as bombs are falling and the electricity is cut, Ukrainian librarians are working to meet residents in new ways and to plan for a future where the war is over.

How are new research fields established and who decides what knowledge counts as legitimate? A new doctoral thesis at the University of Borås studies how sustainability science has emerged and the power structures that characterise a research field with the ambition to be open, interdisciplinary and socially transformative.

Rewarding, fun and intensive – that is how Linn Bengtsson described her year as Chair of the Student Union in Borås. During the year, the Student Union doubled its number of members. "A confirmation that the efforts we have made make a difference," she said.